In 1981, Raphael became the reserve champion of the Oldenburg Stallion Licensing and finished third in his Stallion Performance Test. Raphael hardly produced any competition results, but immediately proved to be an important sire. He sired 22 licensed sons, including Radiator, Rocky, Ragazzo, Ravallo, and Raphanus, and produced both exceptional show jumping and dressage offspring. Raphael's offspring have won to date 1,791,539 € of prize money. His most famous competing get are Radiator under Rene Tebbel, Robinson under Richard Spooner, the Grand Prix horse Reveille under Kamilla Dupont. At the 2003 Westfalian Stallion Licensing, the Reserve Champion Ruter was by Raphael (out of a Larome dam).